OAKESHOTT AND HAYEK
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The very title of this Oakeshott sylloge, Rationalism in Politics, evokes Hayek's critique of 'constructivism'. The topic of convergences and differences between Hayek and Oakeshott is now a much plowed field. According to Kenneth Minogue, Hayek and Oakeshott were 'good friends'. Those who read the works of one and the other will not fail to notice that the starting point was very different: the denunciation of the "fatal presumption" of social engineers comes to Hayek from his participation in the debate on economic calculation in the plan economy, in the 1930s.